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  • the present invention relates to a phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (hereinafter also referred to as "PCK”) gene and to a recombinant vector containing the same.
  • PCK phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
  • PCK is an enzyme which reversibly catalyzes the reaction forming oxaloacetic acid by carboxylation of phosphoenolpyruvate.
  • ATP-dependent PCK EC 4.1.1.49
  • GTP-dependent PCK EC 4.1.1.32
  • Plant PCKs are dependent on ATP and play an important role in the process of photosynthesis by which starch is formed from carbon dioxide.
  • C 4 plants include mainly the plants belonging to family Gramineae originated in tropical zone, and are well adapted for strong sun light, high temperature and to shortage of water. More particularly, the rate of photosynthesis of C 4 plants is twice that of C 3 plants, and the photosynthesis is not inhibited by oxygen in the air. The photosynthesis of C 4 plants does not reach saturation even if they are irradiated with a light having an intensity by which the photosynthesis of C 3 plants is saturated. Further, the optimum temperature for photosynthesis of C 4 plants is higher than that of C 3 plants.
  • PCK of plants plays an important role in photosynthesis.
  • a C 3 plant is transformed so that it produces the PCK of C 4 plant, it is expected that various effects may be obtained, such as increase in the rate of photosynthesis, efficient utilization of the sun light, and promotion of photosynthesis at a high temperature.
  • PCK gene of plants needless to say C 4 plants, has not been entirely sequenced.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide a cloned PCK gene of a C 4 plant, a recombinant vector containing the gene, and a plant transformed with the recombinant vector.
  • the present inventors succeeded in cloning the PCK gene of Urochloa panicoides which is a C 4 plant and in determining the entire sequence of the gene as well as deduced amino acid sequence encoded by the gene.
  • the present inventors further succeeded in constructing a recombinant vector containing the PCK gene and in transforming a plant with the recombinant vector to obtain a transformed plant which expresses the PCK gene, thereby completing the present invention.
  • the present invention provides a cloned DNA encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS: 1-6 in Sequence Listing or the same amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NOS: 1-6 except that one or more amino acid is added, deleted, inserted or substituted, with the proviso that the polypeptide having this amino acid sequence has phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity.
  • the present invention also provides a recombinant vector comprising the DNA according to the present invention, which can express said DNA in a host cell.
  • the present invention further provides a plant transformed with the recombinant vector according to the present invention, which produces phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase.
  • the PCK gene of Urochloa panicoides was cloned and its nucleotide sequence was determined. It is expected that by introducing this gene into a C 3 plant, the efficiency of photosynthesis may be promoted, photo energy may be more efficiently utilized and resistance to high temperature of the plant may also be promoted.
  • FIG. 1 shows the positions and lengths of the cDNAs employed for obtaining PCK1 which is a full length cDNA sequence of Urochloa panicoides;
  • FIG. 2 shows the positions and lengths of the cDNAs employed for obtaining PCK2 which is a full length cDNA sequence of Urochloa panicoides;
  • FIG. 3 shows the amino acid sequence encoded by PCK1 in comparison with that encoded by PCK2;
  • FIG. 4 is a gene map showing inserted DNA region of the recombinant vector used for transformation of rice plants.
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing localization of PCK protein in a PCK1+2 chimera-introduced rice transformant.
  • Lane 1 shows the soluble fraction of chloroplasts
  • Lane 2 shows crude extract of greenleaves+chloroplasts digested with trypsin in ice for 30 minutes
  • Lane 3 shows disrupted chloroplasts digested with trypsin
  • Lane 4 shows soluble fraction of chloroplasts treated in ice for 30 minutes
  • Lane 5 shows crude extract of green leaves
  • Lane 6 shows chloroplasts digested with trypsin in ice for 30 minutes.
  • the gene according to the present invention was cloned by preparing a cDNA library from green leaves of Urochloa panicoides by a conventional method, and identifying a PCK-producing clone by immunoblotting method employing an anti-PCK antibody.
  • the nucleotide sequence of the gene was determined by sequencing the cDNA insert in the clone and the amino acid sequence encoded thereby was deduced.
  • the molecular weight of the protein having the deduced amino acid sequence is identical to that of purified PCK, so that the gene is thought to encode full length of PCK.
  • the above-mentioned method is detailed in the examples hereinbelow described.
  • the nucleotide sequences shown in SEQ ID NOS: 1 and 3 in Sequence Listing were determined.
  • the present invention provides cloned DNAs encoding the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NOS: 1-4, respectively. Further, as will be described concretely in the examples described below, the N-terminal of active PCK of Urochloa panicoides was determined.
  • the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NOS:1-4 were ligated at the KpnI site (a part of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 3 is in the upstream side), and a DNA encoding an amino acid sequence of the transit peptide originated from the small subunit of Rubisco of rice was ligated to the upstream of the above-mentioned ligated DNA (SEQ ID NO: 5).
  • the amino acid sequence from the 52nd serine to the C-terminal encodes the mature PCK protein. It was confirmed that the rice plant transformed with this DNA produced PCK encoded by this DNA, which PCK had a PCK activity.
  • DNAs prepared by ligating parts of a plurality of naturally occurring PCK genes are also within the scope of the present invention.
  • Site-specific mutagenesis may be carried out by, for example, using a synthetic oligonucleotide primer complementary to a single-stranded phage DNA except that the desired mutation as follows. That is, using the above-mentioned synthetic oligonucleotide as a primer, a complementary chain is produced by a phage, and host bacterial cells are transformed with the obtained double-stranded DNA. The culture of the transformed bacterial cells is plated on agar and plaques are formed from a single cell containing the phage. Theoretically, 50% of the new colonies contain the phage having a single-stranded chain carrying the mutation and remaining 50% of the colonies contain the phage having the original sequence.
  • plaques are then subjected to hybridization with a kinase-treated synthetic probe at a temperature at which the probe is hybridized with the DNA having exactly the same sequence as the DNA having the desired mutation but not with the original DNA sequence that is not completely complementary with the probe. Then the plaques in which the hybridization was observed are picked up, cultured and the DNA is collected.
  • the methods for substituting, deleting, inserting or adding one or more amino acids without losing the enzyme activity include a method in which the gene is treated with a mutagen and a method in which the gene is selectively cleaved, a selected nucleotide is removed, added or substituted and then the gene is ligated.
  • the DNA according to the present invention may be obtained by the method described in detail in the examples below.
  • the gene of the present invention may be obtained easily by PCR method utilizing the genome DNA of Urochloa panicoides as a template or by RT-PCR method utilizing cDNAs of Urochloa panicoides as a template.
  • the DNA according to the present invention may be inserted into an expression vector for plants to obtain a recombinant vector.
  • a transformed plant which can express the PCK of Urochloa panicoides may be obtained by transforming a plant with the obtained recombinant vector.
  • the method for transforming plants has already been established, and the method employing Agrobacterium tumefaciens is preferably employed.
  • the transformation method employing Agrobacterium tumefaciens is well-known in the art and dicotyledons (e.g., Japanese. Laid-open Patent Application (Kokai) No. 4-330234) as well as monocotyledons (WO 94/00977) may be transformed.
  • Suitable plants for introducing the PCK gene according to the present invention include rice, maize, tomato, tobacco and the like, although the plants are not restricted thereto. An example of the method for transformation is described in detail in the examples described below.
  • RNA isolations All plant material used for RNA isolations was from U. panicoides accession CQ2798, supplied by CSIRO, Division of Tropical Crops and Pastures, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Light grown plants were grown in full sunlight for 5 weeks during the summer months. Dark grown plants were grown at 28° C. from seeds sown on wet tissue in aluminum foil-wrapped polystyrene boxes.
  • PCK was purified from light grown U. panicoides leaves essentially as described in Burnell JN, Purification and properties of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from C 4 plants. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 13:577-587 (1986), except that a second DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B column (commercially available from Pharmacia) was omitted.
  • the trap was filled with 10 mM Tris acetate, pH 8.6, 1 mM EDTA, 1% SDS while the anode and cathode chambers were filled with 40 mM Tris acetate, pH 8.6, 1 mM EDTA, 1% SDS. Electroelution was carried out at 3 W constant power for 3 hours. The recovery of protein from the cathode well of the trap was >90%. The electroeluted PCK was concentrated by centrifugation in Centricon-30 (trademark) ultrafiltration capsules (Amicon, Australia), diluted 100-fold with PBS (15 mM sodium phosphate, pH 7.2, 140 mM NaCl, 3 mM KCl) and reconcentrated.
  • PBS 15 mM sodium phosphate, pH 7.2, 140 mM NaCl, 3 mM KCl
  • Proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE on 10% acrylamide resolving gels (Laemmli, supra) and either stained with Coomassie blue R-250 or used for electroblotting.
  • gels were equilibrated in 25 mM Tris, 192 mM glycine, 20% methanol prior to electroblotting to nitrocellulose membrane (Schleicher and Schuell, Germany) with this buffer in a Trans-Blot (trademark) chamber (Bio-Rad, Australia) on ice for 1 hour at 250 mA.
  • Blots were blocked with 0.5% skim milk powder in TBST (12.5 mM Tris HCl, pH 8.0, 137 mM NaCl, 2.7 mM KCl, 0.1% Tween 20) for 16 hours before adding clarified rabbit anti-PCK antiserum and incubating for 1 hour. Blots were washed 3 times for 10 minutes with TBST and the bound antibody detected using the ProtBlot (trademark) detection system according to the manufacturer's specifications (Promega, Australia). For N-terminal amino acid sequence determination, proteins were transferred to polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membrane (Bio-Rad, Australia) by electroblotting as above except the tank buffer used was 10 nM CAPS, pH 11, 10% methanol. Blots were stained with 0.1% Coomassie blue R-250 in 50% methanol, destained with 50% methanol and air dried. The protein bands to be used in the sequence determination were excised.
  • PVDF polyvinylidene difluoride
  • RNA was purified from various U. panicoides tissues after the method of Chomczynski and Sacchi (Chomczynski P, Sacchi N: Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate phenol chloroform extraction. Anal. Biochem. 162: 156-159 (1987)). Poly(A) + RNA was isolated from total RNA by batch treatment with oligo-(dT) 25 -conjugated paramagnetic particles (Dynal, Norway) according to the manufacturer's procedure.
  • a directional cDNA library was constructed in ⁇ gt11D from 3 ⁇ g U. panicoides poly(A) + RNA using a TimeSaver (trademark) cDNA synthesis kit (Amrad-Pharmacia, Australia) according to the supplier's instructions.
  • the library was packaged using Gigapack II (trademark) packaging extracts (Stratagene, USA), and titred and amplified on Y1088 plating bacteria (Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T: Molecular Cloning. A Laboratory Manual, 2nd ed. Cold Spring harbor laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor N.Y. (1989)). Transfers were blocked for 1 hour as above for immunoblots before incubating for 16 hours in 50 ml TBST containing 10 ⁇ l rabbit anti-PCK antiserum.
  • DNA restriction fragment probes were purified from agarose gels (Sambrook J., et al., supra) and radiolabeled with ⁇ - 32 P! dCTP (NEN-DuPont, Australia) by random priming using a GIGAprime DNA labeling kit (Bresatec, Australia). Hybridization was conducted at 42° C. for 16 hours before membranes were washed twice in 2 ⁇ SSC, 0.1% SDS at 42° C. for 15 minutes and twice in 0.1 ⁇ SSC, 0.1% SDS at 65° C. for 15 minutes.
  • Phage DNA was prepared from plate lysates and the inserts were subcloned into pBluescript II-KS (trademark, Stratagene, USA) using standard procedure (Sambrook J. et al., supra).
  • sets of nested deletions were constructed using exonuclease III (Henikoff S: Unidirectional digestion with exonuclease III creates targeted breakpoints for DNA sequencing. Gene 28: 351-359 (1984)) followed by mung bean nuclease digestion before re-ligation.
  • Alkaline lysis mini preparations (Sambrook J. et al., supra) of appropriate deletion plasmids were denatured by boiling in alkali (Yie Y.
  • the first step in the molecular characterization of U. panicoides PCK was to obtain an antiserum against purified PCK.
  • Ammonium sulphate fractionation followed by ion exchange and molecular sieve column chromatography was used to purify PCK from field grown U. panicoides according to Burnell JN (supra).
  • Protein from the peak fraction obtained from Sephacryl S-300 (Pharmacia) column chromatography was separated by SDS-PAGE. Staining with Coomassie blue revealed five protein species of approximately 69, 63, 62, 61 and 60 kDa. The most abundant species, migrating at 62 kDa, was presumed to be PCK and was gel purified.
  • the final purified product appeared to be homogenous upon SDS-PAGE and, so, was used as the antigen for the production of a rabbit antiserum.
  • the resulting antiserum was used to probe an immunoblot of the same column faction used for the antigen purification.
  • the pattern obtained was identical to the Coomassie stained profile in both the proteins detected and the relative staining intensities of the five species.
  • subtle differences in staining intensity were seen.
  • RNA isolated from green leaves of field grown U. panicoides was used to construct a cDNA expression library in a ⁇ gt11 derivative vector.
  • a cDNA expression library in a ⁇ gt11 derivative vector.
  • 40 immunoreactive clones were obtained. Twelve of these were re-screened to homogeneity.
  • the cDNA inserts were subcloned and the ends sequenced. All 12 inserts had homology to the PCK sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Stucka R et al., Nucleotide sequence of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene from Saccaromyces cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Res 16: 10926 (1988)).
  • the library was rescreened with radiolabeled restriction fragments from the 5' ends of cDNAs extending progressively more in the 3' direction.
  • the resulting overlapping clones which were completely sequenced in both directions are shown in FIG. 1.
  • the ⁇ PCK110402 insert overlaps the ⁇ PCK100101 and ⁇ PCK190203 inserts by 675 and 132 bp, respectively.
  • the overlapping regions of these clones have identical sequences.
  • the molecular mass of the deduced 624 residue PCK1 protein is 68,474 Da.
  • the algorithm of Kyte and Doolittle indicates that PCK1 has an overall hydrophilic nature with no transmembrane domains according to the criteria of Popot and de Vitry (Popot J-L, de Vitry C: On the microassembly of integral membrane proteins. Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biophys. Chem. 19: 369-403 (1990)). This is consistent with its cytosolic localization.
  • the N-terminal amino acid sequence of U. panicoides PCK was determined by direct sequencing.
  • the proteins in the Sephacryl S-300 (Pharmacia) column fraction containing the peak PCK activity were separated by SDS-PAGE such that the 60-63 kDa proteins ran as a single broad band. This material was blotted to PVDF membrane and the entire band subjected to twelve cycles of automated Edman degradation. Each cycle resulted in the release of detectable quantities of either four or five amino acids.
  • the N-terminal sequencing experiments suggest that the 69 kDa U. panicoides PCK translation product is processed to a mature protein of between 60.8 and 62.7 kDa by the removal of a 56-75 residue leader sequence.
  • the present invention also provides DNAs encoding these five protein species.
  • U. panicoides seeds were germinated and seedlings grown in the dark for 7 days before exposing to continuous light for 96 hours.
  • the etiolated shoots were generally 5 to 6 cm in length and weighed 15 to 20 mg.
  • the elongated coleoptiles were white with yellow immature leaves visible through the intact tips. After 6 hour exposure to light, the coleoptile tips had ruptured and the leaf blades had begun to visibly green and expand. The leaves continued to green and expand throughout the 96 hour light treatment. In contrast, the remainder of the coleoptile changed very little with the length and weight of the shoots increasing only slightly during the exposure to light.
  • the major species detected by the partial PCK cDNA probe is 2.7 kb in length.
  • the probe also hybridizes to a heterogeneous smear of RNAs smaller than 2.7 kb. In experiments where poly(A) + RNA from green leaves is probed with radiolabeled restriction fragments from each end and the middle of the PCK1 cDNA, only the 2.7 kb RNA is detected.
  • this species is most probably the PCK1 mRNA, while the heterogeneous smear in the total RNA is due to PCK1 transcripts lacking poly(A) tails.
  • the unpolyadenylated RNAs could arise either from degradation of the PCK1 mRNA or premature termination of PCK1 transcription.
  • the 1.4 kb cDNA probe does not detect the PCK1 MRNA in total RNA from roots or etiolated shoots. However, after 6 hour greening, the PCK1 mRNA is detected in shoots. The abundance of this RNA increases steadily during the next 84 hours but at no time during the light regime is the PCK mRNA as abundant as in the green leaf. Although the 2.7 kb transcript is present after only 6 hour exposure to light, the heterogeneous smear is not detected until after 48 hour exposure to light.
  • Example 2 The same procedure as in Example 1 was repeated. As a result, by analysis of positive clones obtained in isolation of the PCK1 cDNA, a clone having a high homology with PCK1 cDNA but having a nucleotide sequence different from that of PCK1 cDNA was obtained.
  • the overlapping clones are shown in FIG. 2.
  • the ⁇ PCK170204 insert overlaps the ⁇ PCK190202 and ⁇ PCK110101 inserts by 227 and 107 bp, respectively.
  • the overlapping regions of these clones have identical sequences.
  • Genome DNA was extracted from green leaves of a rice plant (Oryza sativa cv. Nipponbare) grown in a green house or green leaves of a maize plant (Zea mays L. subsp. mays line B73) by the method of Komari et al ( Komari T, Saito Y, Nakakido F, Kumashiro T: Efficient selection of somatic hybridsin Nicotiana tabacum L. using a combination of drug-resistance markers introduced by transformation. Theor, Appl. Genet. 77:547-552 (1989)).
  • a promoter was isolated from maize genome DNA by PCR method using primers synthesized based on the sequence of the promoter region of maize phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (Hudspeth R L, Grula J W: Structure and expression of the maize gene encoding the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase isozyme involved in C4 photosynthesis. Plant Mol. Biol. 12: 579-589 (1989)).
  • the nucleotide sequences of the used primers were as follows:
  • Reverse primer 5'-TCGATGGAGTGGTGCTTCTC-3' (SEQ ID NO: 8)
  • the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S terminator (SphI-EcoRI fragment) on a plasmid DNA pGL2 (Biland B, Iida S, Peterhans A, Potrykus I, Panszkowski J: The 3'-terminal region of the hygromycin-B- resistance gene is important for its activity in Escherichia coli and Nicotiana tabacum. Gene 100:247-250 (1991)) was employed.
  • the region encoding the transit peptide was isolated from rice genome DNA by PCR method using primers synthesized based on the sequence of the rice Rubisco small subunit (Matsuoka M, Kano-Murakami Y, Tanaka Y, Ozeki Y, Yamamoto N: Classification and nucleotide sequence of cDNA encoding the small subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase from rice. Plant Cell Physiol. 29:1015-1022 (1988)).
  • the nucleotide sequences of the used primers were as follows:
  • Reverse primer 5'-GCTCTAGACTGCATGCACCTGATCC-3' (SEQ ID NO: 10)
  • the gene map of the constructed plasmid is shown in FIG. 4.
  • the nucleotide sequence of the constructed cDNA region is shown in SEQ ID NO: 5 in Sequence Listing.
  • nt1-nt153 is the region encoding the transit peptide originated from rice Rubisco small subunit
  • nt154-nt966 is the region encoding the N-terminal side of PCK2
  • nt967-nt1863 is the region encoding the C-terminal side of PCK1.
  • the cells at 3 days from the beginning of a subculture were suspended in an enzyme solution containing 1.0% Cellulase Onozuka (Yakult Honsha, Japan), 1.0% Macerozyme (Yakult Honsha, Japan), 0.1% Pectoriaze Y-23 (Seishin Seiyaku, Japan), 0.5% Dricellase (Kyowa Hakko, Japan) and 0.4 M mannitol, and the suspension was left to stand at 30° C. in the dark for 3 hours.
  • the cell suspension was then filtered through 20 ⁇ m Nylon mesh and the obtained filtrate was centrifuged at 50 ⁇ g for 5 minutes.
  • the obtained precipitate of protoplasts was suspended in 0.4M mannitol and the protoplasts were washed twice with this solution.
  • the obtained protoplasts were suspended in EPAA buffer (Tada Y, Sakamoto M, Fujimura T: Efficient gene introduction into rice by electroporation and analysis of transgenic plants: use of electroporation buffer lacking chloride ions.
  • Theor.Appl.Genet. 80:475-180 (1990) was left to stand in ice for 5 minutes.
  • 10 ⁇ g of pGL2 plasmid and 30 ⁇ g of pPCK plasmid were added and electric pulse of 250 ⁇ F, 600 V/cm was applied to the suspension using an electroporation apparatus (Bio-Rad, USA).
  • the pulse-treated protoplasts were left to stand in ice for 15 minutes and then at room temperature for 30 minutes.
  • Protoplasts were collected by centrifugation and suspended in R2-1 medium containing 1.25%. Seeplaque (trademark) agarose (FMC, USA) to a cell population of 3 ⁇ 10 5 cells/ml. The suspension was then solidified on 9 cm petri dish in the form of small droplets. To this, R2-1 medium and rice Oc cells (Baba A, Hasezawa S, Shono K: Cultivation of rice protoplasts and their transformation mediated by Agrobacterium spheroplast. Plant Cell Physiol. 27:463-471(1986)) were added and the resultant was cultured at 25° C. in the dark.
  • Main veins were removed from green leaves (5-10 g) of a transformed rice plant grown in an artificial weather chamber (28° C. day/22° C. night, long day regimen 16 hours) and the leaves were cut into pieces having 0.5-1 mm width.
  • the obtained leaf pieces were digested in an enzyme solution containing 0.8% Cellulase Onozuka RS, 0.8% Fancellase (Yakult Honsha, Japan), 0.25% Pectriaze Y-23, 150 mM sodium phosphate buffer (pH 5.6), 0.3% bovine serum albumin and 0.4 M mannitol at 30° C. for 1 hour.
  • the treated tissue was washed with a buffer (50 mM Hepes-KOH pH 7.0, 0.33 M sorbitol, 2 mM EDTA, 1 mM MgCl 2 , 1 mM MnCl 2 , 0.1% bovine serum albumin) and suspended in about 10 times volume of iced buffer containing 1 mg/ml sodium isoascorbate, followed by homogenization of the tissue with Polytron homogenizer (trademark, Kinematica, Switzerland). The homogenization with Polytron homogenizer was conducted twice at the highest power for 3 seconds.
  • a buffer 50 mM Hepes-KOH pH 7.0, 0.33 M sorbitol, 2 mM EDTA, 1 mM MgCl 2 , 1 mM MnCl 2 , 0.1% bovine serum albumin
  • the obtained homogenate was filtered through 4-ply Miracloth (trademark, Calbiochem, USA) and the filtrate was quickly centrifuged (revolution was decreased when it reached 6000 ⁇ g).
  • the obtained precipitate was suspended in a buffer and the resultant was used as a chloroplast sample.
  • trypsin was added to a concentration of 50 ⁇ g/ml and the mixture was left to stand in ice for 30 minutes.
  • chloroplasts were collected by centrifugation at 10,000 ⁇ g for 3 minutes and suspended in 50 mM Hepes-KOH buffer (pH 8.0). The suspension was frozen at -80° C. and then thawed at room temperature to disrupt the chloroplasts.
  • the disrupted chloroplasts were centrifuged at 10,000 ⁇ g for 5 minutes and the obtained supernatant (soluble fraction of chloroplasts) was subjected to SDS-PAGE. After the electrophoresis, proteins in the gel were electrophoretically transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane and the PCK protein was detected by using anti-U. panicoides PCK protein rabbit antiserum, peroxidase-labeled anti-rabbit IgG goat antibody (MBL) and HRP coloring kit (trademark, Bio-Rad, USA).
  • the obtained pulverized solution was centrifuged at 15,000 ⁇ g for 20 minutes and the obtained supernatant was applied to NAP5 (trademark) column (Pharmacia, Sweden) preliminarily equilibrated with a column buffer (25 mM HEPES-KOH pH 7.0, 2 mM MnCl 2 , 2 mM MgCl 2 , 0.1% (v/v) 2-mercaptoethanol, 10% (w/v) glycerol) to carry out desalination, thereby obtaining a crude extract.
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  • a column buffer 25 mM HEPES-KOH pH 7.0, 2 mM MnCl 2 , 2 mM MgCl 2 , 0.1% (v/v) 2-mercaptoethanol, 10% (w/v) glycerol
  • Quantitation of chlorophyll in the pulverized solution was carried out in accordance with the method of Wintermans and deMots (Wintermans JFGM, De Mots A: Spectrophotometric characteristics of chlorophylls a and b and their pheophytins in ethanol. Biochem.Biophys. Acta 109:448-453(1965)). Quantitation of proteins in the crude extract was carried out by using Protein Assay kit (trademark, Bio-Rad, USA) according to Bradford's method (Bradford MM: A rapid and sensitive method for quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal.Biochem. 72:248-254(1976)).
  • Measurement of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase was carried out by measuring the rate of decrease in absorption of oxaloacetic acid at 280 nm of 1 ml of the reaction mixture containing 25 mM HEPES-KOH pH 7.5, 4 mM DTT, 0.2 mM oxaloacetic acid, 1 unit of pyruvate kinase, 0.2 mM ATP and 50 ⁇ l of the crude extract.
  • PCK activity was detected in the crude extract of green leaves of transformed rice and non-transformed rice. However, in the non-transformed rice, substantially no PCK activity was detected.

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